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President Obama says FIFA made the ‘wrong decision,’ LeBron’s return to Cleveland will be ‘brutal’

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“I think it was the wrong decision,” the president said of today’s Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) ruling that the 2018 World Cup soccer match would be played in Russia, with the 2022 game played in Qatar.

“But I continue to be optimistic that our team – wherever we’re playing – is gonna make it to the finals next time out,” he said.

The president shared these thoughts as he bumped into some reporters were being hustled into the Roosevelt Room for a background briefing on tax issues. The president, accompanied by Vice President Biden, was on his way from the Oval Office to Blair House across the street, where he spoke to the nation’s governors.

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